Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Hunot, Man
Entities
Categories
Description
Thin verge watch in gilt case
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement, un-signed, cuvette engraved 'M Hunot' and 'LONDON'. Balance cock, segment table with cut away centre, one arm engraved with a snail, the other a hare. Regulation sector scale engraved on neck with ends marked 'S' and 'F'. Blued steel end piece with diamond end stone, regulator fitted to central boss and overlapped by two end piece screws. Foot engraved, curved from neck and straight sides, pointed end, hand set and winding holes through foot. Polished steel balance. Top plate has an engraved border and rings under balance. Turned fusee iron post. Potance screwed, and rectangular-counter potance riveted to plate, two tapped rectangular blocks to secure brass edge. Pillar plate with four turned pillars, ringed at ends. Centre wheel recessed, third wheel bar. Pillar plate tapered towards edge (to take curve of dial). Fusee and chain with set-up click under dial, one lip on barrel. Verge escapement. Train planted clockwise.
Great efforts have obviously been made, in planning the movement, to get it as flat as possible.
DIAL: White enamel convex on copper, two feet. Diamond shaped quarter marks, ladder minute ring, radial Roman chapters.
BRASS EDGE: With cuvette, with movement fitting into centre, from the dial side, and fixed to movement by two horizontal screws. Dial feet fit through flat casing diameter, whole then fits into case from back and secured by four turn screws. Casing diameter flat and top flat engraved. Hinged cuvette, back engraved 'M Hunot' above 'LONDON' all surrounded by engraved decoration. Two hands engraved from hand set hole and horse in harness pulling from winding hole, also 'No 471' engraved.
HANDS: Missing, and no provision has been made for a seconds hand.
CASE: Gilt metal, plain with only the back opening, movement in brass edge fitting it from back. Glass missing.
Notes
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Legal notes
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
Components of the work
Dial
composed of
enamel
( white, on copper)
copper
Movement
composed of
iron
steel
Case
composed of
gilt metal
Diameter 57.5 mm
Height 71.5 mm
Thickness 17 mm
Movement (end Stone)
composed of
diamond
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 40.25 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 41.5 mm
Movement (brass Edge)
Diameter 52.5 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 4 mm
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 'M Hunot' and 'LONDON'
- Location: Movement
- Method of creation: Engraved
- Type: Maker's name
- Text: 'No 471'
- Location: Brass edge
- Method of creation: Engraved
- Type: Number
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: PW.39-1923
Primary reference Number: 207308
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Thursday 10 December 2015
Updated: Wednesday 28 March 2018
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
